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Activists call to rename the Francis Scott Key Bridge because he owned enslaved people
NPR· 6 days ago"Renaming buildings so that they're no longer named after slave holders or segregationists is not...
Brown v. Board of Ed, Thurgood Marshall and Me
Politico· 21 hours agoAs he sat at a large table for his weekly meeting with us, his law clerks, he rehearsed exactly what he would say to his colleagues to keep them from...
We need to talk about white America’s ‘victim mentality’
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 3 days agoIt’s why Democrats and Lilly White Republicans both branded pro-Democracy African Americans as...
MLB including Negro League stats should make fans question our biases
NBC Sports Boston via Yahoo Sports· 4 days agoEven for a sport that reflects America's segregationist past like no other, It's a breathtaking act...
Analysis | The Texas GOP takes the party’s hostility to democracy to a new level
Washington Post· 6 days agoOne of the more remarkable responses to Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 presidential election has...
Cape Town’s poor ‘neglected’ in South Africa’s only opposition-run province
Al Jazeera· 6 days agoIn the leafy, picturesque southern suburbs of Cape Town, Dee Lackay, 38, is making a new start after...
An Insurrection, a Pandemic, and Celebrities: Inside Biden's Rocky Transition Into the White House
Rolling Stone· 2 days agoThere have been a dozen or so books published on Joe Biden‘s presidential campaign and another dozen...
Forever Stamp for Harper Lee | Guest Commentary
Santa Maria Times· 5 days agoPulitzer Prize-winning novelist Harper Lee, who died in 2016, received many honors during her long life. Lee’s 1960 book, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” set in...
U.S. sailors take a Memorial Day turn on L.A.'s 6th Street Bridge
LA Times via AOL· 6 days agoThe ship is named after the U.S. Rep. Carl Vinson (D-Ga.), who helped expand the Navy and was an...
70 years after Brown v Board, Alabama town still grapples with divided schools
The Montgomery Advertiser via Yahoo News· 6 days agoAlabama was among the first states to do so, said Suitts, a historian and author of “Overturning...